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Thu 10 Mar, 2011 06:35 am
Context:
Please gie me one more chance.
2. Can we gie it one more try?
3. Therefore, replay may potentially gie incorrect results.
Where the hell did you come up with that? Is that supposed to be a rendering of someone's speech? Obviously, the word wanted is give.
@oristarA,
not correct ori.
the word should be GIVE.
The only exception i would make there is if the author was transscribing a scottish mans speech. often a scotsmans speech would sound like gie when he says give.
@oristarA,
That would be an old Scottish usage; it wouldn't be considered English at all.
@Setanta,
Och awa wi' ye.
If you read
Trainspotting or similar current novels, Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin, you will probably see a lot of reported speech like that.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Context:
Please gie me one more chance.
2. Can we gie it one more try?
3. Therefore, replay may potentially gie incorrect results.
If you mean the Scots "gie" then it is part of the ancient Scots dialect; it is not part of standard English. Do not make the mistake of using it in standard English.
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